The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson

Lord Justice Leveson was born in Liverpool on the 22nd June 1949. Having been educated at Liverpool College and Merton College, Oxford, where he read Law, and was called to the Bar by Middle Temple in 1970. As a junior, he practised on the Northern Circuit from Chambers in Liverpool, across the full range of common law work, eventually concentrating on crime, personal injury and commercial work. He was appointed Queens Counsel in 1986 and moved chambers to Manchester and London where he continued in the same type of work. In 1993, he moved his home to London.

He was appointed an Assistant Recorder in 1984, a Recorder in 1988 and a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales in 2000, when he was assigned to the Queens Bench Division and to the Administrative Court. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Presiding Judge of the Northern Circuit and, January 2006, Deputy Senior Presiding Judge. He was appointed as a Lord Justice of Appeal and a member of the Privy Council in October 2006. He become Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales in January 2007.

He was a law lecturer at the University of Liverpool from 1971 to 1981 and a Member of the University Council between 1983 and 1992. He is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

He is married with three children. His interests include walking and travel.